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100 1 _aKING, Desmond
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245 1 0 _aThe Polotics of Social Research :
_binstitutionalizing public funding regimes in the United States and Britain
260 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_cOctober 1999
520 3 _aIn the twenty years after 1945 both the United States and Britain created public funding regimes for social science, through the National Science Research Council (SSRC) respectively. The historical and political contexts in which these institutions were founded differed, but the assumptions about social science concurred. This article uses archival sources to explain this comparative pattern. It is argued that the political context in both countries played a key role in the development of the two research agencies. In each country the need politically to stress the neutrality of social research - thugh for different reasons in each case - produced a bias towards positivist scientific methodology, untempered by ideology. This propensity created the trajectory upon which each country's public funding regime rests
773 0 8 _tBritish Journal of Political Science
_g28, 3, p. 415-444
_dCambridge : Cambridge University Press, October 1999
_xISSN 0007-1234
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_cAnaluiza
999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
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